Harvard sentences! | |
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Pardon the unicode: | |
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├───────────────┤ One day when playing with | |
│╭─────────────╮│ Iridium, I overheard the | |
││ Iridium ││ most peculiar message: | |
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│╰─────────────╯│ " The hog crawled under | |
│═══════════════│ the high fence. Move the | |
├───────────────┤ var over the hot fire " | |
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│ ___ ___ ___ │ It sounded like something | |
│[ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ]│ straight out of a bond movie! | |
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Here is the audio sample: | |
harvard_stencences.mp3 | |
After some investigation, it turns out these are called | |
'harvard sentences' and are designed to be phonetically | |
balanced and used in testing of telcom systems. | |
Ah that makes complete sense now. - Alas, not 007. | |
When talking about this on sdf's #gopher channel, | |
cat from baud.baby | |
shared a phone number that gives an endless stream | |
of these: (858) 651-5050 | |
Next time you find yourself in need for some | |
phonetically balanced goodness, you can give that one | |
a ring! | |
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